Centre Sets to Train Correctional Officers on Digital Literacy
By Rabiu Musa
HOTPEN – The Centre for Information Technology and Development (CITAD), has said that plans are at the top gear to train officers of the Nigerian Correctional Service on digital literacy.
The training, according to the centre, is aimed at transforming the workforce of the correctional officers into digital framework as a key seaurity agency in the country.
Executive Director of Centre, Engr. Y. Z Ya’u made the commitment on Tuesday during a courtesy visit to Federal Maximum Security Prison, Jama’are, Bauchi State.
The Executive Director, said the NCS was one of the most crucial security arms of government that needed the relevant stakeholders collaboration to achieve a collective mandate for the growth and improvement of the country.
As such, he said, the Center will offer training on ICT to twenty (20) officers of the NCS and that it will donate a set of computers and printer to the prison administration, as well as to support entrepreneurship training for prison inmates.
Engr. Y.Z added that emerging technologies were changing mode of operations around the world, making it highly digitalised and competitive, paving way into the Fourth Industrial Revolution.
On his part CSP Isa M. Umar, who is officer in charge of Jama’are Maximum Security Prison said that the free training came at the right time when the global attention is shifting to the use of Information and Communication Technologies in different endeavors.
He also commended CITAD for its diverse interventions in Information Technology across the Northern Nigeria, stating that it was yielding positive results.
He encouraged the organization to be consistent in deepening Information Technology across the country at large.